Ronald Carswell, once rated a four-star receiver who signed with Alabama, is transferring to West Virginia.

Carswell, who spent the last year at Itawamba Community College in Mississippi, told the Macon Telegraph that he is a different person now than he was when he first signed with the Tide in 2010.

“I won’t say I was cocky back then, but I was, let’s say, overconfident,” Carswell said. “I didn’t think that anything bad could happen to me, and I still had a lot of growing up to do. I made some mistakes, and I paid the price.”

Carswell was suspended for spring practice in 2012 and eventually left for the junior college. It was there, he said, he grew up and learned that “it was time for me to give 100 percent to becoming the best football player and person I could be.”

Now, he’s headed to West Virginia, where he joins Florida State quarterback transfer Clint Trickett and Houston running back transfer Charles Sims. All three are immediately eligible and gave the Mountaineers a huge offensive boost going into the fall.